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As I’ve mentioned earlier on this blog, I’m a part of this organization called ASATA (Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) in the Bay Area. They occasionally send out emails about community events and resources open to South Asians.
They recently sent me an email about how SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) is looking new members for its Board of Directors. I didn’t know who they were so I checked out their website and they’re awesome.
Here’s the description listed on their site:
The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is the only independent non-profit organization working to document, preserve and provide access to the rich history of South Asians in the United States. Through our digital archive, outreach and educational programming we examine the importance of the past in shaping the future and ensure that the important stories from our community are preserved for future generations.
I really, really wish I knew about this resource earlier when I was writing papers about the experiences of South Asians in America. People like me know that finding any documentation on desis living in the U.S. is so ridiculously difficult, it’s almost impossible.
If you know anyone who’s interested in being in their Board of Directors, message me and I’ll give you all the info!
spreading the word bc SAADA is brilliant and I had a chance to work with them this year and it was fantastic!
Trailer from the 1920 silent film, Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the hardships blacks faced in Jim Crow America. The subject matter was so controversial at the time, that the film was severely edited. Most prints were destroyed, and the film was considered lost for 70 years until a lone print was discovered in a Spanish archive. Within Our Gates is believed to be the earliest surviving film directed by an African-American filmmaker. The full version of the film is available online.
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Photos from previous posts: Ho Miu Ling (Madame Wu Ting Fang), Indira Gandhi, Uzbek girl engineer, Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, Philippine schoolgirls, and Japanese mother and daughter.
Happy May Day, aka International Worker’s Day! Here’s wikipedia’s article about the history of May Day as a celebration of the international labor movement, and a photograph of socialists in New York City’s Union Square on May 1st, 1919.
In 1960, Garanger, a 25-year-old draftee who had already been photographing professionally for ten years, landed in Kabylia, in the small village of Ain Terzine, about seventy-five miles south of Algiers. Garanger’s commanding officer decreed that the villagers must have identity cards: “Naturally he asked the military photographer to make these cards,” Garanger recalls. “Either I refused and went to prison, or I accepted.
“I would come within three feet of them,” Garanger remembers. “They would be unveiled. In a period of ten days, I made two thousand portraits, two hundred a day. The women had no choice in the matter. Their only way of protesting was through their look.”
Erin - In forty years I have lost, through the operation of no natural law, more than Three Millions of my Sons and Daughters, and they, the Young and the Strong, leaving behind the Old and the Infirm to weep and to die. Where is this to end?.- O’Hea, J. F. (John Fergus), ca.1838-1922, artist
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Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science.
Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from a collection assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique of the1900 Exposition Universelle.
Muhammed Ali kissing a young girl, 1983, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Richard Gordon.
Want a copy of this photo?
> Visit our Rights and Reproductions Department and give them this number: iCHi-36027Connect with the Museum
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